ID: 11665
Date of birth : 1840
Place of birth : S. Þingeyjarsýsla
Date of death : 1920
Jóhanna Jóhannesdóttir was born in 1840 in S. Þingeyjarsýsla. She died in June 17, 1920 in Saskatchewan.
Spouse: Björn Einarsson born in 1842 in N. Múlasýsla.
Children: 1. Anna Ingibjörg b. 1870, died in New Iceland from smallpox 2. Hróðný b. 1873, d.1906 in Elfros, Saskatchewan 3. Halldór b. 1883 in N. Dakota 4. Valdimar. They had a foster daughter Guðný Þóra Þorsteinsdóttir b. 1863.
They emigrated west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1876 and moved on to New Iceland. Life’s road led them to the Thingvalla Settlement in N. Dakota in 1880. They moved east to Roseau, Minnesota in 1898 and then to the Vatnabyggð Settlement in Saskatchewan in 1903. They bought land near Elfros.